linux-kernel - Re: Unionmount status?

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Message-ID: <BANLkTik7jasnvqFQohRdU-3crM8fr9pBXg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:22:41 +0200
From:	Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...trum.cz>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@...il.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Ian Kent <ikent@...hat.com>, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Unionmount status?

On 14 April 2011 10:38, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...trum.cz> wrote:
>> On 13 April 2011 16:18, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> wrote:
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/22/222
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for pointing out this announcement.
>>
>> However, neither this announcement nor the document
>> Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt included in the git tree
>> details how to mount the filesystem. Without that it is kind of
>> useless.
>
> Oh, I'll fix that in the docs.  Thanks for pointing it out.
>
> Here's how to mount:
>
>  mount -t overlayfs overlayfs -olowerdir=/lower -oupperdir=/upper /overlay
>

OK, I built a small live CD with the v7 patch and I can boot it but I
get errors like

Cleaning up temporary files...
[    nn.nnnnnn] overlayfs: ERROR - failed to whiteout 'motd'
find: cannot delete `./motd': Operation not supported

Thanks

Michal
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